State v. Calongne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The appellant was convicted upon two counts of an information charging that with the intent to cheat and defraud one Mary Broadbent he made to her false and fraudulent representations to the effect that the New Spring Creek Oil Company was then actually paying its stockholders dividends of 30 per cent per annum from production of oil and gas; that she, believing the representa*333tions and in reliance thereon, purchased shares of the corporate stock of the oil company and paid to one R. J. Bell and the appellant $1,000 therefor; that in truth…